43 GENETICS AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY 



1969 

 Editor: H, J. Teas University of Kentucky Press 



164 pp., 41 figs., 13 tbs. Lexington, Ky. 



Price: $ 6.50 



Contributors: W. E. Baraett (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), J. Bonner (Pasadena, Calif.), D. H. Brown 

 (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), K. S. Chiang (Chicago, 111.), J. L. Epler (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), R. Hasel- 

 kom (Chicago, 111.), P. Howard-Flanders (New Haven, Conn.), J. R. Kates (Princeton, N.J.), 

 K. G. Lark (Lawrence, Kans.), Th. S. Matney (Houston, Tex.), N. Sueoka (Princeton, N.J.), 

 J. C. Suit (Houston, Tex.), J. H. Taylor (Tallahassee, Fla.), H. }. Teas (Coral Gables, Fla.), 



A. Tyler (Pasadena, Calif.), W. B. Wood (Pasadena. Calif.) 



This book contains the ten papers read at the Morgan Centennial Sym- 

 posium held at the University of Kentucky in 1966. The Symposium had no 

 central theme, and the contributors were apparently selected only because they 

 had some relation with Morgan or his work. This has resulted in a hetero- 

 geneous collection of papers under a stopgap title. Moreover, publication has 

 been so slow that most papers are largely out of date. Some of them have 

 been updated to some extent, however. 



We will only mention those papers that may still be of interest to develop- 

 mental biologists, viz. a paper by the late Albert Tyler on masked messenger 

 RNA and embryonic determination, one by James Bonner on the control of 

 gene activity, and, last but not least, a very interesting paper by William 



B. Wood on gene action in the control of bacteriophage morphogenesis. The 

 latter paper has been updated to 1 969. 



The anonymous introduction contains a brief sketch of Morgan's personality 

 and significance as a scientist. 



The book is well produced but has no indexes. 



44 MORPHOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL CHANGES 



IN PROCESSES OF CELL DEVELOPMENT 

 1967 

 Editors: Ya. P. Tsinovskij, Ya. G. Erenprejs, Izd. Zinatne 



A. R. Dalmane and H. A. Grigalinovitch Riga 



294 pp., 143 figs., 22 tbs. 



Contributors: K. S. Abramjean, I. M. Buikis, A. R. Dalmane, V. K. Demidova, V. A. 

 Dmitrieva, J. Erenprejs, E. S. Gak, H. A. Grigalinovitch, M. N. Gruzova, O. A. Hoperskaya, 

 L. B. Ileuhina, K. J. Jegina, T. P. Jevgeneva, B. A. Kalnina, N. B. Khristoljubova, M. N. 

 Kiritschenko, A. I. Klimpina, H. Kiibar, V. I. Kuvichkin, L. B. Levinson, T. A. Litcheva, 

 G. V. Lopashov, E. N. Meshalkin, M. E. Neverova, M. F. Nikitenko, V. P. Obuhova, G. N. 

 Okuneva, D. A. Plegere, B. O. Press, H. J. Puzhaka, A. A. Strazdinya, N. Ph. Teterina, 

 J. P. Tsinovskij, Z. A. Viksnc, Ya. T. Volodjko, M. E. Vologodskaya, V. I. Vorobyev, 

 V. K. Zalcmane, S. J. Zalkind, R. A. Zime, L. F. Zvezdina 



This report of a Symposium held in Riga in July 1966 is written in Russian 

 and is announced only briefly. It contains 30 papers arranged in three sections 

 as follows: I. General cytology (15 papers); II. Cytology of the nervous system 

 (5); III. Cellular pathology (10). The research reported was carried out on 

 a great variety of systems with an equally great variety of morphological, 

 experimental, and biochemical techniques. 



All papers have English summaries. Among the illustrations there are 

 numerous photomicrographs, which are unfortunately poorly reproduced. 



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